Experts believe China is building a 'Facebook of human intelligence'

The US has been hacked numerous times over the last many years.
Isolated as these incidents may have seen, it’s now becoming
clear that a unified entity is behind these huge breaches. And
China is allegedly
the most likely suspect.

These connected hacks date back more than two years ago,
writes Bloomberg. Investigators are now piecing together the
evidence from a slew of huge data breaches and believing China to
be the likely perpetrator. And China’s reason for doing this,
according to security experts speaking with Bloomberg, is to
amass a huge database on all Americans.

Bloomberg reports that many cybersecurity companies think that
China is building a "Facebook of human intelligence."

"Some investigators suspect the attacks were part of a sweeping
campaign to create a database on Americans that could be used to
obtain commercial and government secrets,"
writes Bloomberg. In short, this years-long campaign was
deliberately orchestrated to scoop up as many files as possible
and to create a indexable resource.

So far the hacks that appear to be connected include the U.S.
Office of Personnel Management (which involved as many as 21.5
million people’s records) and Anthem Health (which involved as
many as 80 million people’s records). Both of these hacks
occurred months, if not years, before they were noticed. And they
both resulted in the systematic hoovering of personal data.